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Kinsey Zero through Sixty nominated for Lammies

The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced the nominees for their 21st annual awards “for excellence in literature” — commonly known as the Lammies.

Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey, edited by Ron Jackson Suresha, published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Journals, was nominated in two categories: Bisexual Literature, and GLBTQ Anthologies.

According to the LLF website, “A shortlist of finalists will be chosen for their achievement,” most likely by the end of March. The awards will be presented at a ceremony in NYC in May.

Published by Ron Suresha

Ron Jackson Suresha is an editor, anthologist, and writer. He is considered an authority on emergent queer masculinities, in particular the subcultures of gay and bi male Bears and of male bisexuality. For Ron's service to the bear community, he was named "Bear of the Year" 2008. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Suresha attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 1976-8), where he studied creative writing, and Vista College (Berkeley, Cal., 1989-92), where he studied American Sign Language. For more than two decades, he has worked as a freelance proofreader for trade book publishers such as Shambhala Publications. He was married in October 2004 to Rocco Russo. He is also a licensed Justice of the Peace in Connecticut, an ordained minister, ULC, and a member of the New London Green Party. Nonfiction works include Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions; Bi Men: Coming Out (coeditor, with Pete Chvany); Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey (editor). His latest book is The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero, published by Lethe Press.